Well Being Sanctuary

10/21/2026

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Urge the Connecticut Department of Social Services to replace the age-of-diagnosis rule with an age-of-onset standard for the ASD Waiver program. Sign now.

10/21/2026

Complete your HUSKY Re-Enrollment
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10/21/2026

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10/20/2026

It is midnight. You meant to go to bed an hour ago, and you are still scrolling.

That is energy conservation mode (dorsal vagal): your system running on low power, and scrolling asks nothing of you. The slide into it is automatic. Laura teaches the manual part: catching a shift, then working with your nervous system instead of against it. Sometimes that means rest, on purpose, so you can get back to baseline.

That manual part is what the morning is spent on, starting with your own state.

Mapping Your Nervous System, a live training on Zoom with Laura Bertrand, MA, LPC. Friday, November 13, 9:00 AM to 1:10 PM Eastern. 4.0 credit hours; check with your board. $175. Details and registration: https://wbsinstitute.com

Mapping Your Nervous System has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. Well Being Sanctuary Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. SP-5470.

10/16/2026

You snap at your partner over the dishes. Hours later it is midnight, and you are still scrolling, too flat to go to bed.

Both are your nervous system changing state on its own. First comes activation (sympathetic), fight or flight. Then energy conservation mode (dorsal vagal): you shut down to save what you have left.

Laura's point: reactions like these are part of your physiology instead of your personality. Name the state, and you can choose your next move. If you can learn it on yourself, you can teach it to clients.

Across one morning you build a map of your own states, mild to peak, in your own words.

Mapping Your Nervous System is a live training on Zoom with Laura Bertrand, MA, LPC, on Friday, November 13, 9:00 AM to 1:10 PM Eastern. 4.0 credit hours; check with your board. $175. Details and registration: https://wbsinstitute.com

Mapping Your Nervous System has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. Well Being Sanctuary Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. SP-5470.

10/14/2026

10/13/2026

Learn to recognize the moment your nervous system shifts into fight or flight, or into shutdown. Build a tool you can use with yourself today, and with your clients tomorrow.

That is Mapping Your Nervous System, a live training for clinicians with Laura Bertrand, MA, LPC.

Her starting point: we tend to read a reaction as part of our personality, when it belongs to our physiology. Across one morning you map your own nervous system on paper: the behaviors, emotions and sensations of each state, from mild to peak, in your own words. You leave with that map finished, along with a graph of your own pattern, your body map and one or two regulation goals.

Friday, November 13, 9:00 AM to 1:10 PM Eastern, live on Zoom. 4.0 credit hours; check with your board. $175. Details and registration: https://wbsinstitute.com

Mapping Your Nervous System has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. Well Being Sanctuary Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. SP-5470.

10/13/2026

Mel has availabiltiy for new clients. https://wellbeingsanctuarywbs.com/mel-coleman.html

09/28/2026

Who was the last person you envied? Most likely someone close, who started out from a similar spot. Envy is information about a want that got put down at some point and never picked back up.

Aimed at someone loved, envy feels disloyal, so it rarely gets said plainly and comes out sideways instead, as commentary. A friend announces a book deal, and the first private thought is about who they must know. Blaming connections is easier than admitting to wanting a book too.

Envy is also more specific than it feels. Beneath envy of a publishing contract there may be a much smaller want: an afternoon a week to write, or being taken seriously by one particular person. Smaller wants are easier to do something about.

The closing questions are worth keeping for a moment when envy flares again.

09/22/2026

Prepare now to keep your HUSKY D Health coverage in 2027 🩺🩺➡ New federal Medicaid rules — which
go into effect this January — mean some HUSKY D members may 1⃣ need to report work, school,
volunteer, or other activities, and 2⃣ renew coverage every six months. Learn more about the changes:
ct.gov/hr1help
Here are steps HUSKY D members can take NOW to stay in the loop 👇👇
✅Learn how to update your contact info at Portal.ct.gov/UpdateUsDSS or accesshealthct.com/report-
changes/ or call Access Health CT at 1-855-805-4325
✅Add DSS to your saved contacts (short codes 60302 and 648731 for texts and 1-855-626-6632)
✅Look out for HUSKY Health/DSS mail or texts
✅Use DSS's prescreener tool to see if the new rules might apply to you:
https://portal.ct.gov/husky/huskydprescreener
NOT EVERYONE IS AFFECTED. HELP IS AVAILABLE. Visit cafca.org/agencies or call 2-1-1 to find your local
community action agency for more information and resources. The Department of Social Services (DSS)
will be sending more information later this year.
8/18/26

https://cthosp.org/h-r-1-and-husky-d-changes-resources/

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